Jim Wilson Obe: 2 books

Book cover of Cold War

Cold War

East Anglia

by Jim Wilson OBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

This is the story of how the Cold War impacted the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target for any Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British deterrent, but also America's first line of...
Book cover of Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Jim Wilson OBE
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009

For most British people the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth, yet astonishingly the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces went to an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles...
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